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...Maine Democrats, convening at Portland last week, were at first reluctant to tie up their twelve convention votes to any one candidate. On a poll, however, they voted (286-10-245) to instruct their delegation for Governor Roosevelt whose strength thus rose to 103. The Maine meeting also went...
...crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States...
...President Hoover received 115,042 votes to 49,626 for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a straw poll conducted by The Pathfinder, Washington (D. C.) weekly...
...final tabulation of the CRIMSON Presidential Poll reveals, even at this early date, certain well-defined trends which will influence the final verdict. In the past they have indicated with considerable accuracy the political temper of the country. In 1928 the primary showed Hoover and Smith as the two party candidates, and the final election gave the Republican candidate the presidency. The present CRIMSON poll, taken in a metropolitan university community, reflects in microcosm the political mind of the nation...
...voters will be. Smith's third place on the Democratic ticket indicates that, while he has little chance for the nomination himself, he may command enough votes to enable him to dictate in some measure on the party platform. Both Garner and Ritchie, on the basis of the CRIMSON poll, will have to depend on their position as compromise nominees for their chances at the convention...